⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Sheikh Khaled Nabhan "Abu Diyaa", a Gazan man who went viral on social over mourning his granddaughter early into the war (Soul of my Soul), was killed by indiscriminate IDF Artillery Shelling on the city of Nuseirat, Central Gaza today.
⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Sheikh Khaled Nabhan "Abu Diyaa", a Gazan man who went viral on social over mourning his granddaughter early into the war (Soul of my Soul), was killed by indiscriminate IDF Artillery Shelling on the city of Nuseirat, Central Gaza today.
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea.
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